Jose-Massu-Espinel
Heaven's Door Double Barrel Whiskey
Blended American Whiskey — Tennessee, USA
Reviewed
December 8, 2020 (edited December 14, 2020)
Sometimes whiskies make me a better person. And i say this because i have heard 1 million times the song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by different artists, including Bob Dylan, and my favorite one is from Guns N' Roses; but i really never had Bob Dylan in my radar. He is one prolific artist, having won even a literature nobel prize. He is a painter, sculptor, blacksmith and of course a music legend.
His whiskey, Heaven's Door Double Barrel, has a nice bottle that resembles one of his sculptures, of a metal door, which i believe is supposed to be the one from his famous song. (Not his most famous one though!) (Fact: it actually is "Like a Rolling Stone").
Bottled at 50%abv (100% proof), this is a nice offering.
On the nose it is pretty fancy, starting with sour prunes, chocolate, berries, vanilla, toasted wheat, chocolate milk powder (formula). After a first sip, the nose turned sweeter, with cherries, cocoa, hazelnut. Very powdery.
On the palate, it is good and rewarding. Oranges, pepper and salt. Then it gave me a metallic note, the one you find in a Pappy Van Winkle, like copper. Nice. Grainy, prunes and brown sugar. Some coffee too.
Aftertaste is very balanced and follows the rythm of the whole dram. Very dry, with prunes, grain, brown sugar, burnt caramel and maple. Then a finish thatbis sour, very fancy.
Overall, this is actually a very nice whiskey. Everyone in my tasting night loved it, and it has actually won some prizes, which in this case are well deserved. Very balanced, my score for it is 92 over 100, 23 points in every criteria. Cheers!
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@ctbeck11 it is! i really liked it
Great notes! Somehow I never knew this was Bob Dylan’s whiskey. I’ve passed it on the shelves a few times. Sounds like it’s worth a pick up.